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March 2013 - Signing Day Edition

The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports

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that they orchestrated something for that day. I don���t think there was a conference call that said, ���Today is the day we���re all going to commit.��� Michigan just did an excellent job recruiting them, and Kyle really liked Coach [Darrell] Funk. I think he just wanted to make his intentions known.��� Running back Wyatt Shallman said he was not planning on commiting that weekend in February 2012, but he became the second to make a pledge to U-M. photo courtesy rivals.com Greg Purnell, Bosch���s high school coach: ���I do know that the Michigan recruits were networking pretty well. The extent was a little bit of a surprise to me. Kyle told me that he was talking to those guys as far back as November and December before he committed, and he even was invited to one of their houses over Christmas break and went. ���It was just a group of young men that clicked and sort of said, ���Let���s all go to Michigan.��� But I don���t know Shallman: ���Kyle always gives me smack for it, because he committed first. He says everyone followed him that day. I was talking to him that day, and he seemed really nice. I was excited to spend more time with players like that, and I knew it was time to pull the trigger. ���I was not planning on committing. A few weeks before, I was at Ohio State, and we actually went to the Ohio State-Michigan game there and sat next to Urban Meyer almost the whole basketball game, just talking about recruiting. They were recruiting me pretty heavy. I was just coming off a lot of time with them, coming into the Michigan visit. ���Coach Jackson sat me down, and said, ���What are you doing? You should stop messing around with all this Ohio State talk. You know where you���re going to end up.��� That���s how it ended up working. I loved it, and so did my mom ��� it was a really great family atmosphere. It has a lot of tradition, and I was really looking for that.��� Offensive coordinator Al Borges: ���Recruiting can be a lot about inertia. The ball starts rolling, and one guy says, ���That looks like a pretty good

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